Pausing to Give Thanks Psalms 118

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Pausing to Give ThanksPsalms 118

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OutlineText: Psalms 118Background and MeditationScriptural Basis of Thanksgiving

Practical Application (Categories for Thanksgiving)

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Text: Psalms 118

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Meditation: Shotgun Houses

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Is This A Correct Attitude?

“We Ought to Be Thankful Because We Have So Much!”

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This is a Correct Attitude!“We Ought To Be Thankful Because God Has Given Us Everything We Have”

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Thanksgiving Is Based

on Dependence Upon

God

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Thank Offerings Leviticus 7:11-15

11 “‘These are the regulations for the fellowship offering a person may present to the LORD:”

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Thank Offerings Leviticus 7:11-15

12 “‘If he offers it as an expression of thankfulness, then along with this thank offering he is to offer cakes of bread made without yeast and mixed with oil, wafers made without yeast and spread with oil, and cakes of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil.”

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Thank Offerings Lev. 7:11-15

“13 Along with his fellowship offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of bread made with yeast. 14 He is to bring one of each kind as an offering, a contribution to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the fellowship offerings.”

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Psalms of Thanksgiving

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Jesus Gave Thanks Mark 6:41 “Taking the five

loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves.”

“41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. “

Regular Practice of Christ

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Paul Gave Thanks

1 Corinthians 1:4 “I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus.”

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Categories for Thanksgiving

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Life, Existence

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Health

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Financial

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Food, Clothing, Shelter

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Country

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Technology

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Transportation

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Friendship

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Family

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Church Friends, Christian Brothers and Sisters

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Salvation

1 Corinthians 15:57 “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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